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Job 21:21 — For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

For what		Job 14:21; Ecc 2:18,19; Luk 16:27,28
the number		Job 14:5; Psa 55:23; Psa 102:24

Correlating Passages

For what

	Job 14:21	His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
	Ecc 2:18	Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
	Ecc 2:19	And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.
	Luk 16:27	Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:
	Luk 16:28	For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

the number

	Job 14:5	Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
	Psa 55:23	But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
	Psa 102:24	I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] throughout all generations.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 21:21," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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